J. C. Ryle Grace Quotations

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.